Michael Caine Quotes
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.
Michael Caine
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
Nate Berkus
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller
'It always seemed to me they’re sort of alike,' he said, 'magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'
Colin Morgan
I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
David Liss
There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.
Sarah Addison Allen
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.
Noy Holland
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
Essie Davis
Mascara is my go-to product before stepping out of the house.
Lindsey Vonn
I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.
Hillary Clinton
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.
Michael Caine
